Reginald Dyer

Reginald Edward Harry Dyer (9 October 1864-23 July 1927) was a Colonel of the British Army during the Third Anglo-Burmese War and World War I. Dyer was infamous for his role as the perpetrator of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre of 1919, during which his men massacred 1,000 Indians.

Biography
Reginald Edward Harry Dyer was burn in Murree, Punjab, British India on 9 October 1864, the son of a local brewer. He attended Middleton College in County Cork, Ireland from 1875 to 1881, and he graduated from the Royal Military College, Sandhurst in 1885. Dyer was commissioned into the British Army as a lieutenant and performed riot control duties in Belfast in 1886 before fighting in the Third Anglo-Burmese War and transferring to the British Indian Army. In 1895, he relieved Chitral in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa from a Pashtun siege, and he was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel in 1910. During World War I, he commanded the Seistan Force in Iran and was promoted to Brigadier-General. In 1919, Dyer became infamous for his role in the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, during which he had his men fire on crowds of men, women, and children at the Golden Temple in Punjab; over 1,000 men, women, and children were killed, while over 1,000 more were wounded. He would remain in command of his troops, however, and he commanded troops during the Third Anglo-Afghan War a month later. An unpopular Dyer was forced to resign in 1920, and he died in Long Ashton, Somerset, England in 1927 at the age of 62.